12 Facts About Felix Auerbach

Felix Auerbach's father, Leopold Auerbach, was a respected physician and professor of medicine at the University of Breslau.

The chemist, Friedrich Felix Auerbach, and Wroclaw pianist, Max Felix Auerbach was born on 1872 and were his younger brothers.

Felix Auerbach received his humanistic education from 1865 to 1873 at Mary Magdalene School in his home town.

In 1879, Felix Auerbach became an assistant to Oskar Emil Meyer at the physics department of the University of Wroclaw and in 1880 he became a lecturer there.

In 1883, Felix Auerbach married Anna Silbergleit, later a board member of the Central German Women's Union and campaigner for women's suffrage.

In 1889, Felix Auerbach took over the professorship of theoretical physics at the University of Jena which had been established by Ernst Abbe.

From 1906 to about 1914, with his sister-in-law, Kathe Felix Auerbach, he took on the education of the children of his brother, Max Felix Auerbach: Klaus, Gunther, Johannes and Cornelia.

Felix Auerbach was a versatile scientist who never lost sight of the practical.

Felix Auerbach worked on magnetism, which was the topic of his habilitation thesis.

Felix Auerbach wrote a treatise on hydrodynamics for the Venetian Academy of Sciences.

Felix Auerbach investigated the hardness of solid materials and in 1890 developed an instrument to measure absolute hardness.

Together with physicist Wilhelm Hort, Felix Auerbach began, as a septuagenarian, the publication of the Handbuch der physikalischen und technischen Mechanik.